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MISSION : The Scrum Master is in charge of:
- Promote, support, implement and help everyone understand Scrum theory, practices, rules and values in accordance with the chosen project approach (Agile, Kanban…).
- Organize the work within the team to optimize productivity during the Sprint.
- Facilitate the relationship and ensure alignment between the Product Owner, who supports the business stakes, and the team in charge of developing the solution to satisfy them.
KEY EXPECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
Product Backlog Management
- Initializes and updates the Product Backlog
- Provides needed methods and tools to insure the delivery velocity of the Sprint and optimize productivity of the Scrum Team.
- Facilitates workshops and supports the Product Owner in its approach to prioritization by value.
- Challenge the Product Owner if the Product Backlog deliverables do not meet expectations in terms of value.
Animation of the Scrum team following the principles of Scrum methodology
- Coaches the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality.
- Facilitates Scrum Events / Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, development work, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective…)
- Ensures that Agile / Kanban values and principles are in place and used by the team over time.
- Ensures that the team members are motivated and committed to promoting rapid and sustainable pace.
- Protects the team from external disturbances.
- Helps the team to address roadblocks and operational problems and ensures the team is in a continuous improvement spirit.
Project Management
- Shares the progress data with the project stakeholders during the Sprint Reviews.
- Ensures that the User Stories/ Use cases requested by the Product Owner are mature enough to be implemented in the next Sprint.
- Leads the Sprint Planning and ensures that the team is committed to a realistic scope.
- Ensures the progress of Daily Meetings and capture the progress and obstacles to deal with.
- Ensures the required engineering practices are in place and used over time, in particular, continuous integration daily product.
- Animates demonstrations at the end of each product iteration.
Monitoring
- Escalades to management (Product Owner, Project Manager, Squad director…) the obstacles that s(he) can’t handle at her/his level;
- Provides the required dashboards to monitor the progress of the product.
- Helps the Project Manager to prepare the Steering Committee and attends the meeting.
- Ensures the completion of the tasks involved in the Sprint and the definition of next releases in the project.
- Contributes with the team to Quality Assurance (QA) measures defined with the RGQE (Quality Manager).
Skills Required
- Proven knowledge and practice of Scrum and Agile methodologies
- Facilitate Scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Retrospective
- Product Backlog management and prioritization support for the Product Owner
- Coach development team in self-organization and cross-functionality
- Remove impediments and escalate blockers to management when needed
- Implement and promote engineering best practices, including continuous integration
- Provide and maintain progress dashboards and reporting for stakeholders
- Collaborate on quality assurance measures and participate in steering committee preparation
Michelin Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Michelin and has not been reviewed or approved by Michelin.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare access is described as broad, including medical, prescription, dental, mental/behavioral health support, and disability and life insurance coverage. Global baseline protections also emphasize healthcare coverage for employees and families.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is characterized as strong, with a 401(k) plus additional retirement components referenced alongside profit sharing in the overall package. Financial benefits are framed as a meaningful part of total rewards beyond base salary.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family support is positioned as a notable strength through global minimum paid maternity/adoption and paternity/adoption leave, plus survivor benefits tied to salary and education support for children. Additional family-oriented benefits such as adoption assistance are also included in the package.
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What We Do
Michelin, the leading tire company, is dedicated to sustainably improving the mobility of goods and people by manufacturing and marketing tires and services for every type of vehicle, including airplanes, automobiles, bicycles/motorcycles, earthmovers, farm equipment and trucks. It also offers digital mobility support services and publishes travel guides, hotel and restaurant guides, maps and road atlases. Headquartered in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Michelin is present in more than 170 countries, has 111,200 employees and operates 67 production plants in 17 different countries. Michelin has a Technology Center in charge of research and development, with operations in Europe, North America and Asia. In short, whether you look at our mission, our products or our people, Michelin is a company that truly helps you to move forward....
